Acts 27:38
And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
KJV
κορεσθέντες δὲ τροφῆς ἐκούφιζον τὸ πλοῖον ἐκβαλλόμενοι τὸν σῖτον εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν.
Greek NT
Et satiati cibo alleviabant navem, jactantes triticum in mare.
Vulgate
And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
ASV
And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
θάλασσα
thalassa
noun · 91×
κορέννυμι
korennumi
verb · 2×
κουφίζω
kouphizo
verb · 1×
πλοῖον
ploion
noun · 66×
σῖτος
sitos
noun · 14×
τροφή
trophe
noun · 16×
ἐκβάλλω
ekballo
verb · 80×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: δὲ | WH/Treg/NIV: δὲ | RP: + τῆς
- δὲ — SBLGNT
- δὲ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + τῆς — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Acts 27:18 — And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
- Acts 27:18 — And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
- Eccl 3:6 — A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
- Jonah 1:5 — Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship;
- Matt 6:25 — Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raime
- Matt 16:26 — For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?